Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Khan, Pir Vilayat

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Auerbach, Red

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan, F. L.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

Antonin Artaud

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

Thrale, Hester i

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

10.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

11.

Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played.

Bright, Grant M.

12.

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.

Byron, Lord

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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Eliot, T. S.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

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And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]

Bible

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I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.

Khayyam, Omar

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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

Beckett, Samuel

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Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Plath, Sylvia

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When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

Keats, John

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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

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When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Stephanie Klein

30.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

Mccreery, John Luckey

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

Arendt, Hannah

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Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to.

Bagnold, Enid

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There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.

Becht, Ben

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Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!

Palmerston, Lord

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Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

Bible

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I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

Hazlitt, William

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The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Mann, Thomas

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Death doesn't frighten me.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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He has gone over to the majority.

Petronius

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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.

Randy K. Milholland

43.

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

Euripides

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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

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Only the young die good.

Herford, Oliver

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain